Wednesday, 20 October 2010

One of the major components of a cloud computing environment is, without a doubt, virtualization. Virtualization enables the cloud to provide virtualized servers to clients via the cloud, without having to rely on specific, individualized physical servers.

The cloud offers a number of advantages, of course, not the least of which is higher availability and increased efficiency. The challenge is providing access to necessary applications via divergent devices in geographically divergent locations, while maintaining high data integrity and synchronicity.

Part of the challenge of using cloud computing to provide flexible access is that users prefer fat applications for many tasks. Google Docs might be very useful and able to replace MS Office in some instances, but it’s not likely it will truly overtake the fat applications market share.

So, what do organizations who are dedicated to providing cloud computing solutions to divergent users do? One thing they’ve done is to turn to desktop virtualization tools and run them via the cloud.

Virtual desktops solve one of the biggest IT problems: the effective management and securing of corporate desktops. Managing a company’s set of virtual desktops is much less unwieldy than managing physical desktops, especially when those desktops are distributed around the world.

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Cloud Distribution are a Value Added Distributor focusing on the security, management and optimization of devices which access the Cloud. Cloud computing is a paradigm of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "Cloud" that supports them.
Smart Phones, Laptops, Home Workers and Branch Offices all need to access critical applications efficiently and securely. Our solutions ensure that ’whilst your computing might be in the cloud, a successful implementation is very much at your feet’.